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Authorities and Specialists Will Debate Virtually about Social Security Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

25 August 2022 | Announcement

Representatives of government, international organizations and academia will participate from August 30 through September 1, 2022 in the Second Regional Seminar on Social Development, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the framework of collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and joint work with German Cooperation and the European Union's Facility for Development in Transition. The three-day seminar is entitled “Social Security and the Protracted Crisis: An Opportunity to Comb…

PAHO and ECLAC Present Joint Report on the Prolonged COVID-19 Health Crisis and Its Impact on Health, the Economy, and Social Development

11 October 2021 | Announcement

WHAT: The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present their joint report The prolonged health crisis and its impact on health, the economy, and social development. The report, the second by the two organizations since the beginning of the pandemic, defines potential scenarios for control and evolution of the pandemic in the short term and details recommended actions to strengthen government capacity to respond to the health needs of populations. WHEN: Thursday 14 October, at 10 am Washingto…

The COVID-19 crisis has reaffirmed the importance of harnessing technological advances and exposing territorial inequalities to promote decent jobs in Latin America, underlined specialists at an event on informal labor

8 October 2021 | News

The COVID-19 crisis has reaffirmed the need to promote productive, decent jobs in Latin America, which includes the implementation of multisectoral policies to confront the high rates of informal labor that characterize the region, underlined government representatives and specialists in the international seminar on Labour Informality: Challenges posed by technological change, territorial inequality and the need for social protection, organized on October 6-7, 2021 by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The event presented the key findings of the project Transf…

New Report by ECLAC Will Address the Social Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Latin American and Caribbean Countries

11 May 2020 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Tuesday, May 12, its Special Report COVID-19 No. 3 on monitoring the economic and social effects of the coronavirus in the region, entitled The social challenge in times of COVID-19. This new document – the third in a series that examines the evolution of the pandemic and its effects in the region – will include an estimate of the social impact and related challenges that the current crisis will have for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in 2020 as well as in the medium and long term. The report…

Public Officials from Uruguay Receive Training on National Accounts and Social Outlays

25 June 2018 | News

Public officials from diverse entities in Uruguay participated, from June 11 to 14, in a course about National Accounts and Social Outlays organized by the office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Montevideo in the framework of a cooperation agreement with that country’s Ministry of Social Development. The course was led by ECLAC’s Regional Adviser on Economic Statistics, Federico Dorín. His objective was to train participants in the measurement of social outlays based on information from the national accounts system, incorporating not just information f…

In a New Report, ECLAC Analyses Trends in Regional Poverty and the Situation of the Pension Systems in Latin America

18 December 2017 | Announcement

On Wednesday 20 December, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will unveil its report Social Panorama of Latin America 2017, which examines the evolution of regional poverty and presents an analysis of the pension systems in Latin America and their challenges in the face of the current demographic transition. The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will give a press conference at 9 a.m. (GMT-6) in the building of the Commission’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico, to present the main findings of the publication. The presentation will be …

ECLAC Studies Effects of Law for More Flexible Access to Retirement Pensions in Uruguay

12 December 2017 | News

The office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Montevideo, Uruguay carried out two studies that analyze the changes introduced in the law for more flexible access to retirement pensions (Law 18.395), promulgated in 2008 in that country, thanks to an agreement with the Uruguayan Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Center for Fiscal Studies (CEF). This law introduced an important set of measures aimed at enabling more flexible access to social security. These modifications had an impact on diverse aspects of people’s well-being as well as on fiscal accou…

Labor Informality and Access Requirements Explain Low Coverage of Unemployment Insurance in Uruguay, ECLAC says

1 September 2016 | News

Uruguay’s unemployment insurance program has low coverage among the total number of unemployed salaried workers (5.9% in 2014) due to the high percentage of those people who work in informal conditions, without a right to this benefit, and because many formal workers do not meet the requirements for accessing it, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) concludes in a new study. The document Analysis of Unemployment Insurance in Uruguay (only available in Spanish), borne of a technical cooperation agreement between ECLAC and Uruguay’s Ministry of Economy and Finance,…

ECLAC Will Analyze Social Institutionality for Universal Protection, Response to Situations of Emergency and Measurement of Spending in Three Events

20 June 2016 | Announcement

Three international seminars that will address diverse subjects related to Latin American and the Caribbean social development will take place during June and July 2016 in Santiago, Chile and in Quito, Ecuador, with the participation of senior government representatives, international officials and specialists from the region. The first event entitled Progress and Challenges of Social Institutionality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Pathways Towards Universal Social Protection From the Perspective of Rights will be held on June 20-21 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin…

Seminar on Indicators of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Will Be Held at ECLAC

10 June 2013 | News

In the presence of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, a seminar aimed at driving the regional debate on building a system of indicators for human rights to follow-up and assess social policy in Latin American and Caribbean countries will be held on 12 and 13 June 2013 in Santiago, Chile. The International seminar on indicators for economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) and follow-up to social policies to overcome poverty and achieve equality is being organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC…

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